From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106142201.p5EM1vOd006127@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimEjXmLHD6c=U-oRp06dkpdaO5RCg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Andrew Pinski on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:56:49 -0700)
> This is wrong as not all FSs are case insensitive. In fact HFS+ can
> be case sensitive too. I think you need better check than just
> saying all Darwin is case insensitive. This is just like using
> FAT32 on Linux. In fact I think HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM is
> incorrect also for NTFS as it can also be case sensitive.
There's a difference between case preserving and case sensitive,
though, and we really don't have a portable way to detect
case-sensitivity on a per-directory basis, sow how can we do better?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 21:33 Joel Brobecker
2011-06-14 21:38 ` DJ Delorie
2011-07-01 17:58 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-06-14 21:57 ` Andrew Pinski
2011-06-14 22:02 ` DJ Delorie [this message]
2011-06-15 4:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-06-15 8:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-15 9:59 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-06-15 10:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-15 10:55 ` Pedro Alves
2011-06-15 11:00 ` Robert Dewar
2011-06-15 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-15 10:46 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-06-15 10:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-15 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-15 19:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
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